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I will confer with the boss (wife) on the dates if FLRider thinks they will work for him.

As for parking a car at Neel's, there is a lot a little north of there but I hear it fills quickly on the weekend. The other option is to get a shuttle from Neel's back to Amacolola Falls. I don't think you can park at Mountain Crossings at Neel's Gap.

I should be good to go for the 7th (Sunday) through the 10th (Wednesday). I'll need to talk to a couple of the guys at work, just to be sure, but it looks good from this end!

I parked at the Byron Reece trailhead over Christmas when I did my day hike of Blood Mountain. It was pretty straight up and down; a ~4.8 mile hike took me about two and and half hours, pushing pretty hard. So, be prepared for the last two or three miles of Wednesday to be pretty straight down.

I think parking one of the cars there, if feasible, would probably be our best bet. That way, we don't have to worry about timing a shuttle.

Right now we are still a go for those dates. We plan to meet at the Byron Reese parking lot around 10 am on Sunday and catch a shuttle back to Springer. We will probably do 10 miles per day and arrive back at Byron Reese on Wednesday. So far it is just me and FLRider who are planning to go. Weather has been all over the place up there this year so I am still trying to figure out what to pack.